The Findings of the Review In January 2016 the then Prime Minister David Cameron commissioned David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham and chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Race and Community, to conduct a review into the overrepresentation of black, Asian, and minority ethnic...
Matthew Gold & Co is delighted to welcome two new solicitors to the team. Maya Lal is a highly experienced solicitor with a particular interest and expertise in public inquiries. She has been instructed in two leading and important inquiries: the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI)...
Following legal pre-action correspondence, the Prime Minister has confirmed that she will consider appointment of panel members to sit alongside Sir Martin Moore-Bick on the Grenfell Inquiry and when doing so, she will have regard to her obligations under the Equality Act 2010.1 Shafika Ragab, who...
This month we're welcoming two new trainee solicitors to the London office of Matthew Gold & Co. Joseph Thompson joins us from Kingsley Napley LLP, where he's been working as a criminal litigation paralegal, while Louise Eardley joins us from the Howard League for Penal...
A long awaited report by Richard Horwell QC into the collapse of R v Mouncher criminal trial reveals the failings that denied justice to the Cardiff Three. Thirteen police officers from South Wales Police were charged with offences of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice...
On Friday 21 July 2017 a jury of nine members reached a verdict of lawful killing in the inquest touching upon Richard Davies, who was shot by an officer of Cambridgeshire Constabulary and died on 21 October 2015. Gillian Davies, mother of Richard Davies, said the...
The independent investigation by Richard Horwell QC into the collapse of the R v Mouncher trial of 13 police officers has found a catalogue of disclosure errors amounting to an “embarrassment on a national scale” and “a disclosure catastrophe”. The investigation importantly found that one...
This month we welcome two new interns to Matthew Gold & Company as part of the University of Sussex First Generation Scholars scheme: Remi Gibbons and Hollie Tompkins. The scheme offers financial support for students with a household income under £42,875 per year, plus non-financial benefits to...
MG & Co is representing the family of Close Protection Officer Michael Hampshire at the inquest into his death in Kabul in 2015, where he was murdered by a suicide bomber just minutes after leaving his employer's headquarters. Michael's tragic death on 17th May 2015...
On 24 March 2017 the High Court ruled that the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham had acted irrationally and unlawfully on four separate occasions in concluding that three destitute children aged ten, six and three, were not in need. MG & Co acted for...
Our client, AA, a refugee from Afghanistan, has received an apology and a settlement of £4,500 following the unlawful destruction of his property, including the only family photos of his mother and father which were taken before the war. In October 2014, AA was arrested by...
In June 2009 our client, TA, had been settled in the UK for 19 years and had an on-going, valid immigration claim. On 17 June 2009 he was detained by Home Office officials because, as it transpired, his case file had been mixed up with...